Was enthält dieser Report? Zum einen natürlich Zahlen und Fakten, wie z.B.: „In total, there were 841,687 registrations from 597,692 unique users across the first year of HarvardX and MITx courses.“ Oder: „The most typical course registrant is a male with a bachelor’s degree who is 26 or older.“

„- HarvardX and MITx registrants are not „students“ in a conventional sense, and they and their behavior differ from traditional students in K-12 and post-secondary institutions. …
– Registrant activity differs considerably within and across courses. …
– There will be no grand unifying theory of MOOCs. …
– Given how different some of these courses and sectors are, their commonalities are surprising. …
– Asynchronicity is a defining feature of open online learning, with implications for how we study it. …
– Measuring learning requires a greater investment in assessment and research. …
– Open online courses are neither useless nor the salvation of higher-education. …“